The Atheist’s Tragedy

The Atheist’s Tragedie: Or The Honest Man’s Revenge was published in 1611. The Revenger’s Tragedie, which is sometimes attributed to Tourneur, had appeared anonymously in 1607. In 1656 the bookseller Edward Archer entered it as by Tourneur on his list, but most recent scholarship attributes…

D’Amville in Cyril Tourneur’s The Atheist’s Tragedy (c. 1611), where the breakdown of old codes of deference before a progressive middle-class morality is strongly in evidence. In The Revenger’s Tragedy (1607), now generally attributed to Middleton, a scathing attack on courtly dissipation is reinforced by complaints about inflation and…